Tuesday, 29 March 2011

The osteopath came today.....

Gandalf had soomething not quite right
in his neck and she manipulated it you could hear a loud pop, then he sighed and
licked and chewed, whatever she did obviously felt good!

I got her out to
see him in the first place because he's started being reluctant to let me pick
up his near hind, and she said it hurts him to lift it due to a bit of siatica.
So she's done a load of work with that and I've got to give him a homeopathic
thing called Traumasedyl for a month then she's coming back to do another
session.

She also said he was otherwise in really good shape and was
surprised when I said he was 17!

Our worries about Chester were largely unfounded, she found he had one of his
neck vertebrae completely out of line, she said he must have had a serious fall
when he was younger, and that's why he stretches out and down when you try to
ride with a contact. He also needs to see the dentist, but we know that, we're
just waiting for him to tell us when he's coming.....

She also said he
had a blockage in the nerves that supply part of his gut, this is why he was
susceptible to colic, she's sorted that out too. He doesn't need to see her
again, just needs to do lots of free work in the round pen to get him using his
muscles properly. She agreed with my thoughts that he'd probably done too much
too young.